The Great Fire of London
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Thomas Farrena and his family are asleep in the bedrooms upstairs. He is woken by his son, who runs into the room shouting. It's then that Farrena smells it. The scent everyone in this city dreads even more than the raw sewage and awful in the gutters. As his son runs to wake his daughter and the maid, Farrena leaps from his bed. Up here, they can breathe, but they're trapped as much at the mercy of the nearing flames as the imminent claps of the building itself.
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